A century ago, the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge was a smelly tidal flat. A dam completed in 1910 turned it into a freshwater basin,...
From the Suffolk Resolves to the Declaration of Independence, Massachusetts delegates shaped the Continental Congress at every step. This feature traces how Boston's crisis became a...
On December 6, 1917, a munitions ship exploded in Halifax Harbor, killing nearly two thousand people. Within hours Massachusetts organized a relief train through a blizzard,...
A giant elm stood on Boston Common for centuries, and tradition tied it to the Common's grim past as a place of public execution. Here is...
Behind the Boston Tea Party lay smuggling networks, a struggling East India Company, politically connected consignees and anxious merchants. The punishment that followed brought Boston's economy...
Colonial Boston's prosperity rested heavily on trade with the sugar islands of the Caribbean. Fish, timber and provisions flowed south while molasses, sugar and credit flowed...
In 1629, a royal charter and a bold decision to carry it across the Atlantic created the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Here is how it was founded...
In the mid-nineteenth century, a modest brick building at the corner of Washington and School Streets was the publishing home of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Longfellow and...
Founded in 1872 and nearly failing in its first year, the Boston Globe became New England's largest newspaper under the Taylor family and later won national...
Abundant timber, skilled shipwrights and a booming trade made colonial Boston one of the British Empire's busiest shipbuilding centers. This feature looks at the yards, the...
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